Bluetongue Disease Risk Assessment Based on Observed and Projected Culicoides obsoletus spp. Vector Densities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Brugger, Katharina ^a   Rubel, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIOSURVEILLANCE; BLUETONGUE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICOIDES; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BLUETONGUE; BLUETONGUE VIRUS; CATTLE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SHEEP;

BLUETONGUE VIRUS 8; BOS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CULICOIDES OBSOLETUS;

EID: 84875686495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060330     Document Type: Article

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